The Collaborative International Dictionary
Virgin \Vir"gin\, n. [L. virgo, -inis: cf. OF. virgine, virgene, virge, vierge, F. vierge.]
A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
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A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. [Archaic]
--Wyclif.These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins.
--Rev. xiv. 4.He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he said.
--Gower. (Astron.) See Virgo.
(Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lyc[ae]nid[ae].
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(Zo["o]l.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
The Virgin, or The Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ.
Virgin's bower (Bot.), a name given to several climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as Clematis Vitalba of Europe, and Clematis Virginiana of North America.
Wikipedia
"The Virgin" is the 50th episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. It was the tenth episode of the fourth season. It aired on November 11, 1992. The cast assembled to read this episode's script on October 14, 1992, and it was filmed six days later, on October 20.
The Virgin is the title of the seventh solo album by British singer-songwriter Adrian Snell.
The Virgin may refer to:
- "The Virgin" (Seinfeld), television episode
- Mary (mother of Jesus)
- Virgo (constellation)
- La Pucelle (violin), also known as The Virgin, a 1709 violin made by Antonio Stradivari
The Virgin is the 1985 debut novel by Nigerian writer Bayo Adebowale. The novel, published in 1985, narrated the dilemma of a village young girl who must choose between three suitors, who is deflowered and agonizes about her secret being discovered on her wedding night.
Usage examples of "the virgin".
That braced, armed stillness with which she had taken her leave the previous night, clasping Sister Hilaria's habit, stayed in his mind as much resembling the virgin knight's bathed and accoutred vigil before his first battle.
They also contain a description of the Virgin which varied little on other occasions.
He had no call to become a Druid, and he would have made a very bad one, and if he is lost to the Goddess, no doubt she will watch over him in her own way, even if he prays to her with beads and calls upon her as Mary the Virgin.
But only too vividly my mind's eye saw that pink boy Jesus perched on the Virgin Mary's left thigh.
Or was it simply that if she gave up her claim to the Virgin Goddess's beneficence, she would cease to importune him to teach her magical spells?
On the rear wall was the fresco of the Assumption of the Virgin by his erstwhile enemy Perugino.
Why don't you want to talk about God and the Virgin and the spiritual world?
There was something of this spirit in the medieval cult of the Virgin, out of which all the beautiful thirteenth-century French cathedrals arose.
She acted the virgin when she enticed him to her bed, but he was not that kind of fool, and there was much gossip about this woman he and his younger brother had grown up with.
While we were waiting on the roof for the sun to go down and Trumper was under the impression that I was asleep, I saw him slope off back to the chancery and remove a magnificent picture of the Virgin Mary from behind the altar.
See, in the genuine or supposed works of John Damascenus, two passages on the Virgin and St.
I looked up at the healthy blue sky and the virgin white clouds, and I tried to catch my breath inside of myself.